A rogue process owned by me called com.apple.quicklookd.ThumbnailHelper was thinking unhappy thoughts so I sent it out to the corn field with a kill -9. Hasn’t returned. We’ll see how the system sleeps tonight.
-Carl > On Nov 25, 2017, at 11:15 AM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, it's being scheduled by launchd, so you should be able to use a tool > like Lingon or Launch Control to see what jobs you have scheduled. You can > disable any of the ones you suspect are causing the problem and reboot, and > see if the problem goes away or not. > >> On Nov 25, 2017, at 11:51 AM, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> I have a MacPro Tower (MacPro6,1) running Sierra 10.12.6, no external >> devices connected. When I put it into sleep mode overnight, I can hear that >> every 4.5 minutes, the HDD spins up, there's a disk access, and then it >> spins down again. I don't like it spinning the HDD up & down all night. >> >> Looking in the console logs (which has been made so very painful) I believe >> I've found the culprit: >> >> Nov 25 03:57:22 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.quicklook[3691]): >> Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to >> XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.quicklook >> Nov 25 04:01:57 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.quicklook[3700]): >> Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to >> XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.quicklook >> Nov 25 04:04:56 syslogd[52]: ASL Sender Statistics >> >> The above sequence repeats ad inifitum. >> >> Does anyone have a clue what this is, and what it thinks it needs to do? >> >> -Carl >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk >
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